Biology, Chemistry, and Physics Together

norcalguy
Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:17:53 +0000

It has nothing to do with your major. Just about everyone who’s premed takes gen chem and bio their freshman year regardless of what their major is. Gen chem and intro bio are classes everyone has to take. If you take these early on, you can spend your later years completing your finance/business requirements. You have to finish your med school requirements by the time you apply and preferably way before you apply so you can take the MCAT. That’s not flexible. What is flexible are the requirements for your major. My upper level bio classes or your finance classes should not take precedance over premed courses.

Edit: Just read your last post. Again, your advice to the OP should not be specific to YOUR circumstances unless he is in the exact same program as you are. Just because I took biochem, physics, and orgo together last semester at Cornell and got a 4.07 GPA (true story) does not mean I’m going to recommend everyone do that. Just because you are in a program that inclines you to omit your science classes doesn’t mean you recommend that to everyone.